"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."

"Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry."

"Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive."

"The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go."

"The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place."

"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."

"What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?"

"The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels."

"Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion."

"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."

"Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again."

"The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy."